[Kzyxtalk] [MCN-Announce]- A local dog died in a hot car yesterday here on the Mendocino Coast

[Marco McClean]

On 5/1/2017 11:55 AM, Laurie York wrote:
 > Dear Coastal Residents, A local friend reported that a family left 
their dog in the car yesterday and it died a horrible death from extreme 
heat inside the car. The family was devastated. They didn’t realize that 
70 degrees outside could be a serious problem inside the car. I’m 
wanting to help remind folks to keep car windows rolled down so your 
pets are safe when left in a vehicle or better yet, leave them at home.


Also, don't just crack the window an inch-and-a-half, nor open just one 
window. Unless it's two or three windows, and they're down far enough so 
the dog can jump out and run into the street, or at least far enough so 
it can bite your arm when you go to get into your car parked next to 
that car, and not just give you a heart attack by exploding into 
frenzied barking and banging its nose and teeth against the window, it 
will get dangerously hot in there.

As for leaving it at home, the poor pupperino tied up in the yard next 
door to Juanita's apartment block, that barked like a broken record all 
day and sometimes all night, has finally died of loneliness, or they let 
it in the house or something; either way, thank Christ.

I know I said long ago that most people who are considering producing a 
baby would be happier getting a puppy --and it's so much less wasteful 
of the planet's resources and the commitment is much more plausible, 
besides that you can sell it or give it away on a whim, or even kill it 
(humanely) if it displeaseth Your Majesty. Just don't get a dog if 
you're only going to torture it all its life by stupid neglect.

Speaking of which, they're having another MCPB corp. board meeting 
tonight at 6, this time in an expensive intoxicant establishment, and 
that's tonight, four hours away, and their website's link to a meeting 
agenda goes nowhere, as usual. Also nothing has changed regarding paying 
the airpeople before paying the so-called manager. Do you think it's 
fair that one guy in the office is paid $60,000 more than all the 
airpeople for all their work on all their shows all year put together? 
Because it's not. At little commercial stations it's /against the law/ 
to not pay airpeople, and commercial stations don't get any six-figure 
tax-derived grants to make up for managerial shortcomings. At KMFB, Bob 
Woelfel always made sure to pay everyone before he paid himself. At KNYO 
Bob Young does all the work the three or four muppets in the office at 
KZYX need to do --for which they're paid $250,000 (!)-- and he does it 
in a lazy afternoon per month, and it's fine with us not being paid 
because /he/ does it for nothing but the love of radio. There are plenty 
of radio stations that are not ridden by parasites. In what other 
business than so-called public radio is it okay with the world that a 
handful of poobahs /take all the money for themselves/ and the ones who 
do the real work of that business get little or nothing but the 
privilege to work? When it's found out that a charity or church or 
sweatshop or trafficked-immigrant whorehouse is run that way, 
justifiable outrage ensues. Why does Mendocino County Public 
Broadcasting Corp. keep getting a pass on this?

Yesterday I saw this interesting video and immediately thought, /This is 
something like what would happen if you put KZYX in water. Except that 
it wouldn't die like the grasshopper --if you call that living-- rather 
it would blossom and flower./
http://boingboing.net/2017/04/30/baptizing-praying-mantises-for.html


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Marco McClean
memo at mcn.org
http://MemoOfTheAir.wordpress.com